title: Analysis of Community Structure in Wikipedia
creator: Lizorkin, Dmitry
creator: Medelyan, Olena
creator: Grineva, Maria
description: We present the results of a community detection analysis of the Wikipedia graph. Distinct communities in Wikipedia contain semantically closely related articles. The central topic of a community can be identified using PageRank. Extracted communities can be organized hierarchically similar to manually created Wikipedia category structure.
date: 2009-04
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://www2009.eprints.org/191/1/p1221.pdf
identifier: Lizorkin, Dmitry <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Lizorkin=3ADmitry=3A=3A.html> and Medelyan, Olena <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Medelyan=3AOlena=3A=3A.html> and Grineva, Maria <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Grineva=3AMaria=3A=3A.html> (2009) Analysis of Community Structure in Wikipedia. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
relation: http://www2009.eprints.org/191/